The Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday, Aug. 17, the arrests of two people believed to be tied to a convenience store burglary earlier in the week.

Travis Allen Roddey, 24, 517 Mostellar Drive, has been charged with second-degree burglary. Jessica Lyn Blackmon, 32, of Westville, has been charged with possession of stolen property, according to a sheriff’s office press release.

Reece Murphyrmurphy@thelancasternews.com
If the Celebration of Great Teaching event on Tuesday, Aug. 14, is any indicator, this is going to be a great year for Lancaster County School District and its teachers.

Though always a great celebration of the excellence district educators embody, this year’s event, with its theme “Ready for the Ride,” was bigger and better than ever before, an event that at times seemed as much a pep rally as a gathering of teachers.

In school, as in life, there are milestones that often prove overwhelming in the sheer immensity of the change.

Take, for example, two of the most pivotal grades in a school career, the sixth and ninth grades.
There you are, in a new school, thrown in, often, with new schoolmates; you don’t know where your classes are, you don’t know where your locker is, or the lunchroom, or the library.

INDIAN LAND – Investigators are hoping multiple images from a Walmart security camera in Indian Land will help catch a man seen stealing several items late Wednesday night, Aug. 15.

The images, which show a man, right, removing a chain from a storage case behind the Walmart at 10048 Charlotte Highway, were released to the public Friday in a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office press release.

The theft happened at 9:15 p.m. when the unknown man broke into a storage cage behind the superstore, the release said.

There’s plenty of local football action on tap this weekend.
The ninth annual Founders Federal Credit Union Kickoff Classic is set for tonight, Aug. 17, at the Reservation at Indian Land High School.
The annual scrimmage at ILHS is the only place you can see all four county high school teams in action at one place.
Andrew Jackson High School kicks off the action as the Volunteers battle the McBee Panthers at 6 p.m.